What's At the Library

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS FOR DESIGNING A NEW CCBC DUNDALK LIBRARY !
Library Renovation - The CCBC Dundalk Library is being renovated.
Web Page For Information on Library Renovation articles and web sites
Please Email Sharon Casey for suggestions on Library renovations.

TRIAL DATABASES !

LexisNexis Academic : academic law database login is "MichelleMeisart" and the password is "chiens1".

Greenwood Press: electronic books from Greenwood Press.

Rittenhouse R2Library:A collection of Ebooks for Health-Sciences.

See librarian for user name and password for databases.

Wireless lap top computers are available for students to check out and use in the library only.
See the circulation desk for details.

Library Hours for Summer Semester:

Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Friday - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday - Closed

 New Material in our Library Collection:

Recent additions to our Book Lease Collections

New Magazine and Journal Databases: 

Electronic Journals, Magazine & Newspapers - Search by the title of the Periodical or find periodicals in that subject. These periodicals are from our online databases.

Free Web Workshops:

Our Free Web Workshop include: Web Searching, Advance Google, Intermediate Searching, & The Invisible Web.
Workshops are available for groups or individuals.

T.R.A.P. - Library "Individual Consultations" are available. Sign up for a personal lesson or consultation on any of your information needs.

Web Research Sites:

Baltimore Architecture Project provides a free, publicly searchable Internet database of biographical and historical information on Baltimore's buildings and their architects. Currently, the time frame covered is 1850-1945. It is a collaboration from the collections, data, images, and professional expertise of the Sheridan Libraries of The Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, Baltimore Architecture Foundation, and Maryland Historical Society.

Musee Directories of Museums (37,000 Museums, global)

RLG’s ArchiveGrid database containing nearly a million collection descriptions of thousands of archives, museums, and libraries remains free for a few more weeks (June 30, 2006).

Windows Live Academic Peer reviewed journal articles. Content related to computer science, engineering and related subjects. beta version. List of Sources/Publishers Public Access

Substance Abuse Information Database (SAID) from the US Department of Labor. This interactive database provides a one-stop source of information with summaries and full text of materials relating to workplace substance abuse issues.Includes section of workplace-related substance abuse law(s) organized by state/territory.

SEC.gov An invaluable resource for anyone interested in business, investing and finance, now more than ever, thanks to new search tools and options. See "Filings and Forms" (a.k.a. EDGAR) to access any public company's earnings reports and other public documents, including mutual fund prospectuses.

MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia. You're given a two hour free pass (set via a cookie) to the full text of the entire encyclopedia. Once your pass is activated, you can search and access the full text using Encarta search box.

Entrepreneurship Research Portal “is a unique aggregation of resources, events and data about entrepreneurship.”

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Search Tools :

Rollyo A tool to create your own personal search engine. Pick the sites you want to search, and rollo creates a custom search engine for you. Use more reliable websites on a certain topic to create your personal search engines. No cost but you have to register.

Mr.Sapo.com Why go to every search engine to get results when you can access them all from one page? That’s the idea behind MrSapo.com, which gives users the option to receive results from 24 different engines. Type in the search term at the top of the page, click one of the search engine buttons and MrSapo displays results from that particular web site. You also have the option to limit your searchers by criteria such as images and audio/video

Scirus: Something new from Elsevier's science only search tool. It offers access to open web and proprietary "science" related content. "How Scirus Works"

SMEALearch which indexes freely available, scholarly business information

Services for your Mobile Unit:

Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Edition available for mobile

MapQuest for Small Screens or MapQuest Mobile some $ or the new MapQuest Navigator

4info.net - mobile search and info tools. Provides a variety of content including:+ Local Info+ Stock Quotes+ Sports Scores+ Flight Info+ Movie Times. According to their web site, several services are "coming soon" including driving directions and comparison shopping.

Digital Libraries

Selection of publicly available digitized materials from the Cornell University Libraries in Ithaca, NY.
Titles include: The Making of America Collection, Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection. Cornell University Image Collections, Witchcraft Collection and more.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com. new digitized newspaper collections (some available for free) Include: Outlaw , AIDS, Immigration, Space Program , September 11, 2001, and more

Other Sites: 

The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Gary Price, the expert on the Invisible Web, started a new Weblog devoted to new resources and tools that he comes across in his travels.